{"id":36167,"date":"2020-05-24T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=36167"},"modified":"2020-05-18T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T19:55:53","slug":"deep-youtubefuture-self-meditationvanishing-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/deep-youtubefuture-self-meditationvanishing-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep YouTube\/Future self meditation\/Vanishing Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deep YouTube<\/strong>
\nMy daughter told me about\u00a0Astronaut.io<\/a>. It\u2019s a website that plays a few seconds of random YouTube videos with almost no views \u2014 like this\u00a0video of a cafe in Vietnam with 1 view<\/a>, and this one of\u00a0goats eating weeds near a freeway in rural Japan with 0 views<\/a>.\u00a0After a few seconds, it starts playing another video. It\u2019s addictive. Many of the videos aren\u2019t in English, which is a plus for me. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Meet your future self<\/strong>
\nI tend to use meditation to help me slow down and ease into discomfort or when I feel my anxiety flaring up, but I came across this\u00a030-minute Life Visioning meditation<\/a>\u00a0on my Aura app and felt completely transformed after it. At first the breathing exercises and noises felt hokey, but it helped to put me into an almost hypnotic relaxed state, and then the narrator took me down a dark tunnel to meet my \u201cfuture self\u201d and I was able to see her so clearly! I was so moved by this whole practice. I\u2019ve done it three times since, and each time I discover some new desire or goal that is buried within me. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

Time travel in Asia<\/strong>
\nWith shameless self-promotion I recommend you follow my new\u00a0Vanishing Asia Instagram<\/a>. Every day I post one amazing photo I have taken of an exotic part of Asia that is disappearing because of modernity. The images are a few of the many thousand that will appear in my Vanishing Asia book later this year. In the meantime enjoy this ride in a time machine. Also available on\u00a0Tumblr<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Pinterest<\/a>, and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Cheap stock images and videos<\/strong>
\nJumpstory is a royalty-free stock image and video service with millions of photos, videos, and illustrations that you can use for websites, books, presentations, and more. The images have been curated from public domain sources, and they\u2019ve done a great job of tagging and organizing everything. I use Jumpstory images on my website, Boing Boing.\u00a0A lifetime subscription is $99<\/a>. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Completely improvised comedy special<\/strong>
\nBefore I watched\u00a0Middleditch and Schwartz<\/a>, the very little improv I was exposed to was not enjoyable. I get anxious when jokes don\u2019t land and then I sympathy laugh and the whole thing is awkward. But now I\u2019m stuck at home, and in desperate need of laughs and this have been the best comedy special I\u2019ve seen. It\u2019s like they\u2019ve harnessed the superpowers of a childlike imagination and then threw it into adult situations, and it\u2019s hilarious and magical to watch. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

Scenarios for the next 9 months<\/strong>
\nHigh uncertainty ahead, for sure. There is no consensus on what will happen in the next 9 months. Every scientist, economist, sociologist, and futurist disagree on what might happen, but we still need to make plans as individuals and organizations. A very helpful tool in a reign of high uncertainty is to use scenario planning. The best set of near-term scenarios I\u2019ve seen is this one,\u00a0Scenarios for the Covid-19 Future<\/a>, available as 45 slides, which include instructions on how to use scenarios. You can\u2019t predict what will happen, but you can rehearse for four different possibilities. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

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